A high school student in Sudbury is celebrating a big win at a national science fair after winning the top prize.
Brendan Matusch did his project in a field that is growing, he built a self-driving vehicle.
Step aside Elon Musk; Brendan Matush might just take your job!
The grade 10 Lo-Ellen Park Secondary student created a self-driving go-cart for Rainbow District School Board's annual science fair.
"I was interested in autonomous driving, both because I had seen a couple projects at the Canada-wide in previous years that did well in that field, and also because of how much, I guess, public interest the field is getting with companies like Tesla and Google developing autonomous cars." said Matusch.
From there he went on to compete at the Sudbury Regional Science Fair and then to the 2018 Canada-Wide Science Fair last week, where he won the best project award.
Matusch says this is just the beginning of things he hopes to accomplish in the field of science.
"I want to, hopefully, go to University of Waterloo for software engineering and then, I guess, my long-term goal is to go to Silicon Valley and work in the machine learning and AI industry there." said Matusch.
Jeff McKibbon is the Principal of Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School.
"It brings us a lot of pride to have Brendon win best project in the show. What a lot of people don't know is that he's had similar results in computer contests, math contests, spelling contests. It's been a pretty special and unique year for Brendon. Yeah, to have someone like that come from our hallways brings us a lot of pride." said McKibbon.
Along with the prize money, Matusch also won a fully-funded trip to compete with his project at the European Union contest for young scientists in Dublin, Ireland this September.
